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parodie — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • burlesque noun A variety stage show combining comic sketches, musical numbers and striptease, associated with American theatres of the early twentieth century and revived since the 1990s as a knowingly retro, glamorous performance art.
  • parody noun A piece of writing, music, or performance that imitates something else for comic or mocking effect.
  • send-up noun A comic imitation of a person, programme or style that exaggerates its most recognisable features in order to make fun of it.
  • skit noun A short comic performance, usually a few minutes long, with a single joke or situation at its centre — the kind of thing performed at a school assembly, on a variety show or in a social media video.
  • spoof noun A humorous imitation that pokes fun at something, especially a film, show, or genre.

Senses

parodie is used for these senses in English:

  • burlesque A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
  • send-up A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.
  • skit A short comic performance done by amateurs.
  • spoof (countable) A light parody. [from 1958]

burlesque — full definition

  1. noun A variety stage show combining comic sketches, musical numbers and striptease, associated with American theatres of the early twentieth century and revived since the 1990s as a knowingly retro, glamorous performance art.
  2. noun A piece of writing, music or theatre that mocks something serious by treating it in a deliberately mismatched way — grand subjects handled cheaply, or trivial subjects handled with mock grandeur.
  3. verb To imitate something in an exaggerated, mocking way.

parody — full definition

  1. noun A piece of writing, music, or performance that imitates something else for comic or mocking effect.
  2. verb To imitate someone or something in a mocking, exaggerated way for comic effect.

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